Crossword clues for contiguity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contiguity \Con`ti*gu"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. contiguit['e], LL. contiguitas.] The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity.
The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes.
--T. Warton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from French contiguité from Latin contiguitas, from contiguus (see contiguous).
Wiktionary
n. A state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in which sections of a plane border on one another.
WordNet
n. the attribute of being so near as to be touching [syn: adjacency, contiguousness]
Wikipedia
In probability theory, two sequences of probability measures are said to be contiguous if asymptotically they share the same support. Thus the notion of contiguity extends the concept of absolute continuity to the sequences of measures.
The concept was originally introduced by as part of his contribution to the development of abstract general asymptotic theory in mathematical statistics. Le Cam was instrumental during the period in the development of abstract general asymptotic theory in mathematical statistics. He is best known for the general concepts of local asymptotic normality and contiguity.
Usage examples of "contiguity".
In this dimension cultures and civilizations, true men and submen, reptiles and mammals, were developed not along parallel lines, far separated in time and space, but in contiguity.
To me, there appear to be only three principles of connexion among ideas, namely, Resemblance, Contiguity in time or place, and Cause or Effect.
No one can doubt but causation has the same influence as the other two relations of resemblance and contiguity.
Call it a kind of transportation if you will, or the creation of a contiguity between universes.
So I compromised by removing two essential components from the contiguity apparatus and smuggling them out in my briefcase.
In the meantime I was preparing a second contiguity generator at home.
Man, he said, associates ideas by similarity and by contiguity in space or time.
Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more!
These two figures of speech, based on similar agency (metaphor) and similar communion (metonym)or simply similarity (agency) and contiguity (communion) are, as linguists have pointed out, the most basic holons of linguistic communication (along with a hybrid, synecdoche, which substitutes parts for wholes).